trap

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/76732

trap We went to see Mr Tetu's patent deep sea fishery in which he had taken 150,000 cod fish in a fornight. It consists of an immense net divided into eight compartments, into which the fish enter without / difficulty, but from which they cannot or do not escape. This huge trap catched all kinds of fish, from the [reverse] capling to the salmon. [footnote describes the compartments the fourth is the 'pound' North Shore Gulf of St. Lawrence Add to T _re_file Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used ~berth, boat, fisherman, skiff, cod trap, buoy, cod (fish), fish, crew, fishery, fishing, gear, glut, keg, cag, lead, leader, linnet, loft, twine loft, man, master, mooring, trap-net, season, skipper, system, time, vee, voyage Reverse at T_15062 There is some upside down text that is unrelated to the res of the card.